| The Battle of New Orleans Library Edition Contributor(s): Remini, Robert V. (Author), Todd, Raymond (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0786192569 ISBN-13: 9780786192564 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: January 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Wars & Conflicts (other) - History | Military - United States - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 973.523 |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Cultural Region - British Isles - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book addresses a pivotal and overlooked moment in American history. In 1815, Britain's crack troops, fresh from victories against Napoleon, were stunningly defeated near New Orleans by a ragtag army of citizen soldiers under the fledgling commander Andrew Jackson, whom they dubbed "Old Hickory." It was this battle that first defined the United States as a military power to be reckoned with and an independent democracy here to stay. The Battle of New Orleans sets its scenes with an almost unbelievably colorful cast of characters--a happenstance coalition of militiamen, regulars, untrained frontiersmen, free blacks, Indians, townspeople, and of course, Jackson himself. His glorious, improbable victory will catapult a once-poor, uneducated orphan boy into the White House and forge the beginning of a true nation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Remini, Robert V.: - Robert V. Remini, historian of the US House of Representatives, has been teaching and writing about American history for more than half a century. He has written more than twenty books, including the definitive three-volume biography The Life of Andrew Jackson, which won the National Book Award (1984). His other books include biographies of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, and Joseph Smith. His Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars won the Spur Award for best western nonfiction from the Western Writers of America. He lives in Wilmette, Illinois. Todd, Raymond: -Raymond Todd is an actor and director in the theater as well as a poet and documentary filmmaker. He plays jazz trombone for the Leatherstocking quartet, an ensemble that gets its name from one of his favorite Blackstone narrations, The Deerslayer. Todd lives in New York. |